Books to Newcastle

[desperance]

As I said above - no, I'm sorry, I guess that should be below: so confusing, adjusting the language to suit the new orthodoxies - it's publication day (s'okay, I've only got another ten hours to keep mentioning this, then it stops being true) and no sooner had I posted the previous than there was a knock at the door, and fifty books arrived, fresh from the States. It's funny, I used to be a novelist, and only a novelist; the business has changed so much in the last ten or fifteen years, these days I'm a performer and a lecturer and a tutor and a bookseller and a publisher and an impresario and now an importer also. Of the second printing, alas, because the book sold out before publication; but hey, I'm not grumbling. And if anyone really, really wants the first edition, there's plenty out there. Anyone who doesn't care, they can buy a (signed!) copy from me, with a swift e-mail; or from The Aust Gate in the UK, or Amazon anywhere, or yr local bookstore, or other specialist dealers, or...

But that really is enough of the shameless self-promotion for now. I've got a launch party to organise. Did I say above, was party organiser on that list of Things I Do Now?

Comments

[desayunoencama.livejournal.com]

That was quick. :-)

Congrats on not only having your new book published, but getting to hold it in your hands--and it's great news that the first printing has already sold out (although why didn't they ship you copies from the first batch?? are you fetishistic about that sort of thing? Maybe your editor has a copy in-house of the first printing he/she could send you, although they may've gotten second printings, too. Publishing is indeed so strange these days.)